Ireland's mother-and-baby homes are a stain on the Catholic church - but this latest refusal to atone is a new low | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The Magdalene laundries and mother-and-baby homes story reveals deep institutional abuse and ongoing struggles for redress and acknowledgment of victims.
'They wouldn't let me see my baby. I could hear his crying, but I could never find where he was' - the horrors of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries
Religious orders and State institutions inflicted severe atrocities on women and children, exposed by a searing new documentary and survivor testimony.
Government to announce Magdalene laundry memorial centre today
The new interpretive centre will be on the site of an old Magdalene laundry, illuminating the harsh realities faced by women who were unjustly incarcerated for societal norms.